“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.” StillsAgeTodaySchoolChristianDarkStudyAliveDevelopmentHighestAspectJewChiefsDark AgesLive For TodayEgyptianExponents Author:Dion Fortune
“The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward.” IfsI CanChristianFilmMovingStarsTalkingAirDevelopmentCaughtMoving ForwardTitlesContractsCaught UpSecrecyJune Author:Christopher Nolan
“With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.” ChristianHouseHalfChristianitySeriousDevelopmentTheaterParis Author:Christian Lacroix
“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.” PeopleWayNeedsKindSelfPlayHelpingRunningChristianLyingJesusKindnessFailingSacrificeDangerDevelopmentGoodnessBe KindSelf Development Book:Commonplace Book Source: Commonplace Book
“What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.” TwoProblemChristianInterestChristianityCasesDevelopmentReturnLateResponseEndureResolveInvolvementPietyCritiqueAntichristPublic InterestWagner Author:John Carroll
“It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.” MenDoeMadeFactsChristianResultsAtheismModernDevelopmentPositive AtheismPerpetualMinors Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'” IdeasChristianFormPoliticalReligionSocialTermChristChurchReligiousViewsAcceptingChristianitySupportDevelopmentBearsContraryDebateDoctrineOrthodoxCrucialSimplestConsensusAstonishingImplicationsHeresyChristian ChurchChristian Doctrine Author:Elaine Pagels
“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.” KnowsHardChristianPoliticalIndividualGoalResponsibilityKnow HowAtheismMovementHard WorkDevelopmentMembersPaperRootsOrganizationArmyPressesPositive AtheismListsMeaningfulReleaseMinistersGrassActivistContrastHandfulAdvocacyOrganizationalGrassrootsChristian RightPolitical ChangeMobilizationMailingPress Release Author:Kenneth D. Wald
“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.” MenHas BeensDoneFactsShowsChristianChurchChristianityAtheismPositionDevelopmentHigherCivilizationDiscoveryAdvantageClaimsPositive AtheismInventionMarchElevationChristian ChurchDiscovery And Invention Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.” ChristianStepsEnemyHumilityPrideDevelopmentSpheresDiscipleshipEvery StepChristian Discipleship Author:John Stott
“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.” FirstsKindWholeFactsChristianAmericaSupportFailingInfluenceMovementRevolutionDevelopmentMassRevolutionaryAccomplishedLatinLatin AmericaNicaragua Author:Ernesto Cardenal
“Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.” WorldChristianPoliticalUnderstandingCommunitySituationSourceDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalMissionsDeterminedWideDoctrineTensionRomeJustificationPrimitiveCentreReflectingApostlesStraightforwardTheologicalArrivalsJerusalemPentecostJustification By Faith Author:Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
“Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.” WorldChristianSeeingCommunicationDevelopmentMassAidsSubstitutesEvangelismMass CommunicationSeeing The Truth Book:How In This World Can I Be Holy? Source: How In This World Can I Be Holy?
“During a recent life development forum we offered a session on Christian practices. In one of the four weeks we introduced the practice of making the sign of the cross on ourselves. This gesture has become a very powerful experience for me. It is rich with meaning and history and is such a simple way to proclaim and pray my faith with my body.” WayBodyChristianSimplePowerfulPracticeRichFourWeekDevelopmentPrayingCrossesGesturesSessionVery PowerfulForumsSimple Ways Author:Doug Pagitt
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“[Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian religion. It is an essential fundamental principle of all religions, whatever stage of development a society has reached, to sympathize with others and to promote that spirit of equality.” WorldGivingChristianSpiritPrinciplesStageDevelopmentEssentialsEssenceFundamentalsDiscussingFundamental PrinciplesStages Of Development Author:Nelson Mandela
“There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.” WorldChristianSpiritualLawChurchLinesModernExamplePossibilityDevelopmentInventionExceptionCowsSufismSteakSpiritual Development Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” HeartChildrenSoulCharacterGodChristianPainSpiritualMotherSufferingFaithFatherHeavenEducationQualityLordHumilityDevelopmentSorrowWasteGainsExperiencePatienceAdversityEndureWorthyChristian InspirationalTrialsMinistersAcquireEnduranceSpiritual WisdomToilFortitudeOur FatherOvercoming AdversityChild Of GodCharitableTribulationKeep The FaithNo PainPain And SorrowPain Is Temporary Author:Orson F. Whitney
“Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.” HumansHeartDifferentChristianGoalViewsExistenceChristianityHuman NatureBrokenDevelopmentHealthyHighestIdealsRegardOptimisticFacultyJoyousPaganismHarmoniousHuman Existence Book:Christianity and Liberalism Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.” MenShouldHas BeensSchoolChristianSpiritualYoungGoneDevelopmentPeriodsCallingYoung ManYoung WomenFormationSpiritual FormationChristian Schools Author:Tony Campolo